Goldsboro, NC: Union Station (ACL, Southern and A&NC)

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A&NC = Atlantic & North Carolina [2004 SPV Map]

Street View, May 2022

Jim Kelling posted three photos with the comment: "Goldsboro NC Union Station (owned by NCDOT but not in use)."

Don Printz: This depot was important because this was the northern terminal of the Carolina Special passenger train of the Southern Railroad. The southern terminal was Charleston, SC. Each branches left every morning at 7 AM, and joined in Asheville NC at 5 PM. At 5:30 each evening, the Carolina Special proceeded to Cincinnati, arriving at 7:30 AM the following morning. The stepped gables design of the Goldsboro depot is similar to the Knoxville depot, also on the Carolina Special.

Jim Kelling: Don Printz ACL and A&NC trains also stopped here, but all tracks are gone.

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The Southern route to the East was the A&NC. Because the Southern route joined the ACL corridor on the south side of the city, and the A&NC route joined the corridor on the north side, I spent quite a bit of time looking up and down Center Street for the depot. Then it occurred to me to Google it.

That is when I found the address of 101 N. Carolina Street. [goldsboronc]

Did the Southern trains go up Center Street and then take that connector to the west and go back down the ACL route to get to the station?

1974/75 Northwest & Southwest Goldsboro @ 24,000 and 1957/58 Goldsboro Quads @ 62,500

I wonder if an earlier Union Station existed in this triangle, but they outgrew it.

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